Washing-machine cylinder.



G. JENSEN. WASHING MACHINE CYLINDER.

PILIUATION FILED JULY 30, 1908.

934,971. v Patented sept. 21, 1909.

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C. JENSEN. WASHING MACHINE GYLINDBR. APELIOATION FILED JULY 30, 190B.

934,971 Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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CHRISTIAN JENSEN, OF PALMYRA, NEW JERSEY.

WASHING-MACHINE CYLINDER.

specification of Letters ratent. Patented Sept. 271, 1909.

Application filed July 30, 1908. Serial No. 446,104.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN JENSEN, residing at Palmyra, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lashing-Machine Cylinders, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in the type of washing cylinder disclosed in my co-pending application No. 390,756 filed August 30, 1907 and No. 419,549 filed March 6, 1908, and patented Sept. 29, 1908, Patent No. 899,988 and it comprehends generally, a cylinder having a pair of heads joined by a series of peripherally arranged.

ribs or bars, spaced apart to permit of the passage of water therebetween, upon each of which is mounted a member having a substantially dove-tailed scoop form in cross section, and whose opposite edges are inclined and disposed relatively to each other that they form agitator blades and also lift' members for .constantly keeping the water under agitation vduring the operationA of passing the water up around in and through the cylinder.

In its more detailed arrangement, my prescnt invention consists in certain details of construction and novel arrangement of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully `described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and illustratedv in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a perspective view of my complete washing cylinder that embodies my present improvements. Fig. 2, is a transverse'section of the same, and Fig. 3, is a detail view of one of the combined metal scoop and agitator members, and illustrates the manner in which the filler or spacing blocks are combined therewith. in detail the several parts constituting one complete scoop portion of the cylinder.

In the preferred form, the cylinder is composed of two independent chambers formed by the'end heads 1 and 1aL and an intermediate head or partition 2 which is connected with the end heads by the series of equidistantly spaced .longitudinal and peripherally arrangedfbars 3 3 that extend the full length of the cylinder, pass through periphcrally disposed sockets in the intermediate Fig. 4c, illustrates head 2 and seat at the ends in like sockets b lb in the end heads, as shown.

The outer surfaces of the bars 3 are curved on the arc of a circle and they form the bearing on which the screen covering 4 for the washing compartment is mounted as clearly shown in Fig. 2 by reference to which it will be also seen that on each of the bars 3 is ixedly held a combined scoop and agitator, which, in my present invention, consists 0f a stout sheet metal member the full length of the machine so as to extend over both compartments when the machine is arranged as shown.4

The member 5 consists of a bottom portion 5a of a width substantially that ofthe bars 3 to which it is securely fastened in any suitable manner, and two side wings 5* 5b that extend outwardly at obtuse angles from the bottom -portion 52 In the extreme ends of the combined scoop and agitator members 5 are closure or filling blocks 6 6, substantially dove-tailed in cross section and in annular alinement with the said blocks 6 6 other and likewise formed blocks 7 7 arranged reversely to blocks 6 are mounted on the periphery of the end heads 1 1, the blocks 7 forming end closures for the pockets 8,y formed between cach adjacent pair of members 5, the said blocks 6 and T'being firmly secured by fastening them to the bars 3 and by the hoop bands 9 9. Snnllar blocks 10 and 10a are provided at the middle or division head 2 that are held down by the hoop band 12.

By constructing the several parts, as shown and so far described, each compartment of the cylinder is formed with two distinct sets of annular and longitudinally eX- tended pockets outside of the screen or perforated covering, the end walls. of one setbeing beveled or inclined inwardly and the end walls of the other or alternate pockets inclined outwardly. This arrangement of.

the pockets I have found very advantageous since when the cylinder is revolved withln the casing 20 first in one direction and then in the other, the water is not only thoroughly agit-ated but is partly lifted and is thrown out by centrifugal force against the wall of the casing by the closed bottom scoop and at the same time is dashed inwardly through the other or screened or perforated bottom pockets. Since the side walls of the screened bottom pockets incline inwardly it follows that when the cylinder is rotated in either direction, the water as it is ejected through 5 the screen, is instantly caught up by the overhanging'side Walls or ribs and dashed back onto the screen, a thorough lifting and further agitation of the water being constantly eilected by the open or solid bottom scoops or pockets.

In my construction of washin cylinder, each compartment has a feed openmg X and a closure member Y therefor, which may be arranged as shown, or in any other suitable manner, and the cylinder is mounted in the casing or water tank (the upper section of which is omitted in the drawing) and may be geared up with driving power for imparting reverse rotary motion thereto in 20 the manner well-known in the practical application of washing cylinders.

One of the important advantages in my present form of cylinder is that I obtain the desired agit-ation and lifting of the water and yet exposea larger surface of the screen covering than is possible in 'the types of cylinders disclosed in my co-pending application and patent hereinbefore referred to.

It will be understood that my present invention is applicable to a Asingle-compartment cylinder ora cylinder having two or more compartments extended in longitudinal alinement. .f

30 designates a controlling valve for the water to the casing and tank and 40 a gage glass for the tank. These form no part of my present invention, they being present, however, in the complete form of my-latest improved washing cylinder.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent; is v 1. A screened washing cylinder having two distinct sets of water scoops annularly arranged on the screen, the scoops of one 'set being arranged tolift and force the water outwardly and the other set to lift and force the water inwardly.

2. A reversely rotatable screened washing cylinder having two distinct sets of scoops annularly and alternately disposed on the screen, one set of scoops being arranged to lift and force the water outwardl and the other set arranged to simultaneous y lift and force the water inwardly.

3. A rotary cylinder for washing machines, having a screened covered compartment, alternating sets of water scoops that extend lengthwise of the compartment and are annularly mounted on the screen, one set of scoops `having a closed bottom, the other and alternating set of scoops having the screens as theirbottoms. v

Il. A rotary' washing cylinder that comprises solid end heads and an intermediate head, a series of longitudinal bars mounted in the peripheral edge of the several heads that extend the full length of the cylinder,

to the periphery of the other head,a screening covering. that takes over the said bars; of

a scoop member secured on each of the longi-l j tudinal bars, said scoop member including a solid bottom and side iange that project out-y wardly at an obtuse angle from the bar, ,clo-

, Sure membersmounted on each end of the scoops, other closure members' for the spaces vbetween thcscoop and-means for holding the scoop members to their'position.

6. In a washmg cylinder, the combination with the end and middle head; of the longi-r..

tudinal bars that join the said. heads, a screen covering for the bars,"of a serles of metallic scoopsthat fit on the longitudinal f bars, a series ofdovetailed filling pieces located on the ends of the scoop, having a fiat.

bottom and outwardly inclined side flanges,

other dove-.tailed filling pieces mounted onl the outer edges ofthe several end and middle heads and hoop irons passed over saidyfilll ing pieces, all being arranged substantially as shown and described.

7. A screened washing cylinder havingv two distinct `sets of water scoops annularly arranged on the screens, the said scoops be-4 7 ing iXedly held on the cylinder- -and with respect to each other, the scoops of one set being formed to. lift and force the water outwardly and the scoops of the other lset formed to lift and force the water inwardly.

8. A reversely rotatable screened washing cylinder having a series of radially projected scoops lixedly mounted on the screened 'peripheries of the cylinder and extending lengthwise thereof, and havin such shape so that one part acts to lift and orce the water outwardly away from the screen and the other acts to lift and force the water in- V wardly through the screen.

9. A .rotary cylinder for washing ma-` chines having a screen covered compartment,

ing cylinder having a series of longitudinal bars over which the screen covering is mounted, a metal scoop fxedly secured to each of the said bars, each of the scoops cona pair of scoops for lifting and deecting 10 sisting of a flat bottommounted on the oylthe water inwardly through the screen, vthe inder bars and outwardly bent ends prolatter forming the bottom of the last menjectedbat an fobtuse angle Ilfrom the lbottom tioned spaces. l

where y to orm spaces etween t e two y.

edges of each scoop fdr lifting and deiiecting CHRISTIAN JENSEN' the water outwardly'under` either direction Witnesses:

of rot-ation of the cylinderand whereby to SA-LIJE A. WIMER,'

form spaces between the adjacent edges of GEO. N. WIMER. 

